Background
Bonner was born at Devizes and educated at Bath, he was apprenticed to Allen Robert Branston and then James Henry Vizetelly, wood-engravers in London.
Bonner was born at Devizes and educated at Bath, he was apprenticed to Allen Robert Branston and then James Henry Vizetelly, wood-engravers in London.
He became an engraver in the style of Thomas Bewick, and was noted for producing a gradation of tints by means of a combination of blocks. Bonner himself trained William James Linton and William Henry Powis. He died on 3 June 1836.